Whether it's cookies or cake you're baking, adding a touch of flair with your icing is tough without some tools. If you need some help prettying up your sweets, a plastic oral syringe will do the trick.

The syringe can suck the icing right up and make creating icing lines a little easier because of the nozzle. Just toss it in the wash when you're done and reuse it whenever you feel like decorating some gingerbread men. Sure, you can buy icing bags, but oral syringes are cheap, can be used for multiple purposes, and you may even have one lying around the house already. If not, you can find them for around three bucks at any drug store or pharmacy. They make syringes dedicated for icing too, but they can be expensive, and unless you're a serious baker, they're hardly worth the trouble.